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Meaning of IMMOBILITY

Pronunciation:  `imow'bilitee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the quality of not moving
  2. [n]  remaining in place
 
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 Synonyms: fixedness, stationariness
 
 Antonyms: mobility
 
 See Also: immotility, immovability, immovableness, inertness, motionlessness, quality, rootage, stillness

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Im`mo*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. immobilitas, fr. immobilis
immovable; pref. im- not + mobilis movable: cf. F.
immobilit['e]. See {Mobile}.]
The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in
place or state.
 
Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Dreaming that you are immobile means feelings of being trapped or that you are rigid in your attitudes and decisions.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: a wise passiveness, abidingness, changelessness, constancy, contemplation, contemplative life, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, firmness, fixation, fixedness, fixity, frozenness, hardening, hibernation, idleness, immobilization, immovability, immovableness, immutability, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, inextricability, inflexibility, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, irremovability, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lastingness, long standing, lull, meditation, motionlessness, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, rigidity, solidity, stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standing, standpattism, stasis, steadfastness, suspension, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness, underactivity, unmovability, unyieldingness, vegetation, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting
 

 

 

 

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